Conquering Mount Everest has become easier with modern technology and Sherpas ready to 'help' climbers. This annual throng has devalued the sport, says Amrita Singh
On May 29, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest. Rediff.com celebrates this 60-year legacy through pictures.
After scaling Mount Everest and Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, Mamta Sauda has added another feather to her cap having successfully climbed Europe's tallest peak Mount Elbrus recently.
A visitor casts a shadow on the ground as she looks at art made from trash picked from Mount Everest at a visual art symposium in Kathmandu.
The first woman mountaineer from Jharkhand Premlata Agarwal, who conquered Mount Everest last May, is now aiming to scale the remaining five summits across the world.
There is only word to describe Ashok Munne's journey -- 'incredible', says A Ganesh Nadar.
The first good view of the aftermath of Nepal's deadly earthquake from a satellite showed that a broad swath of ground near Kathmandu lifted vertically
Forty-five-year-old Premlata Aggarwal from Jharkhand has made India proud. She is the oldest Indian woman to climb the Mount Everest.
For one, triangles are involved.
Newly-appointed Australia coach Justin Langer on Thursday said his team can be considered great only if it wins a Test series in India, something that he likened to conquering Mount Everest, last done back in 2004.
'The Mount Everest Base Camp is at a height of 5,364 metres and no child with Down Syndrome has trekked till there at such a young age; Avnish is only seven years old.'
Uunchai has a simple enough story that drags on for 169 minutes and 48 seconds on the sheer good will of its veteran cast.
'When democracy first came to Bhutan people had no idea and they were like 'What is that?' Oh it's that thing they have in India where the leaders are always fighting and arguing.' When I screened the film to Bhutan's film committee, they thought my film was good but they were concerned about that line. They wanted me to change that line. They said, 'We don't want to offend India.' I tried to tell them that Indians have a great ability to laugh at themselves but they insisted I change it.'
Climbing the Mount Everest is no child's play. Yet, Arjun Vajpayee, just 16 years old, does not agree. He need not because he has just climbed the world's tallest peak, becoming the youngest Indian to do so.
'To get a 100 per cent consensus document without any reservation, any bracket, any chair summary is unprecedented in the history of multilateral forums.'
Dignitaries from India, Nepal, United Kingdom, Russia, United States, Australia, Canada and Ireland attended the funeral. The service was also attended by Norbu Norgay, son of Tenzing Norgay, and four surviving members of the original 1953 Mount Everest climbing team.
Tata Tea, which sold its stake in US-based Glaceau last year, plans to begin selling a low-priced bottled water in the country through its unit Mount Everest Mineral Water, to take on global rivals such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo in the Rs 1,500-crore packaged drinking water market."We want to do it quickly,'' Pradeep Poddar, managing director and CEO, Mount Everest, said. "The market is still very young and we can evolve it further through marketing new offerings."
A committee, which was constituted by the government to investigate the matter, had found the documents submitted by Yadav to be fake.
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'Today, our vast green pastures where local herders used to take their cattle to graze have been taken over by the Chinese.' 'The people in the Galwan Valley have lost their lands where their cattle used to graze.'
Forty-six-year old Richard Meredith-Hardy took off from a base camp 25 kilometres away.\n\n
The armymen were part of the Indo-Nepal expedition team, which also included six Nepalese armymen and five sherpas.
Veteran doctor and educationist from Karnataka Belle Monappa Hegde and archaeology legend B B Lal were also given the Padma Vibhushan awards.
'Nanda Devi is not an easy mountain to climb.'
A 43-year-old seasoned Indian mountaineer died in the Himalayas after he fell ill while descending Mount Dhaulagiri in Nepal.
Sinha had alleged on Monday that her disability was mocked at when she visited the temple recently
You may call it a curious case of clueless Brits! Nearly six in 10 adults in Britain think that the country's highest peak is Ben Nevis, Snowdon -- or even Mount Everest.
He just wanted to see some snow. But he got much more than that. Samanyu, all of 7, scaled Africa's loftiest peak and proved that no dream is impossible. And that age is just a number.
Mountaineer Samina Baig has become the first Pakistani woman to scale Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain peak at 8,848 metres.
Nepal on Wednesday felicitated some of the top names in mountaineering, including an Indian, to mark the diamond jubilee of the first human ascent of Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world.
Based mainly on his reconnaissance reports, the Indian Army went ahead with the mission to occupy the Siachen heights under the Operation Meghdoot.
All 19 people, including seven Britons and five Chinese, aboard a private airlines-owned Dornier aircraft were killed on Friday as the plane crashed minutes after taking off from the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu.
All 19 people, mostly foreigners, aboard a Dornier aircraft of a private airline were killed on Friday morning as the plane crashed minutes after taking off from the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu.
Arunima Sinha, a former national level volleyball player, who had lost her right leg after thrown off a moving train by some hoodlums, created history on Tuesday by becoming the first Indian amputee to conquer Mount Everest.
P Anitha, Madhavan Nambiar, Sudha Hari Narayan Singh, Virender Singh, and KY Venkatesh have also been awarded the prestigious award.
Nepali soldier Bed Bahadur Sunuwar won the world's highest marathon in the snow-covered foothills of Mount Everest.
Arjun Vajpai, 17, decided to celebrate the anniversary of the most memorable day of his life, two days early. The teenager marked the first anniversary of climbing Mount Everest on May 22 last year by scaling the peak of Mount Lhotse at approximately 8.10 a.m on Friday.
'All my life, I have made expensive films. This time, I want to make the least expensive film ever made in Bollywood.' 'It's an honest attempt to climb Mount Everest without knowing if I will reach the peak.'
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